- Shopping Bag ( 0 items )
From the Publisher
"Fragments of Grace is likely to be come a classic: part personal memoir of a journalist filing from some of the dangerous datelines in the world, part political history of South Asia on the cusp of the 21st century, and part travelogue. The book is written with a wonderfully evocative sense of place and a novelist's intuition.""Pam Constable’s reporting from Afghanistan has been an example of the last best hope of journalism: the use of old fashioned travel writing to capture the elusive quality of places and place facts in their proper context, both of which go missing in the mindless search for breaking news."
"It is her reverence for many of the people she has met along the way that gives her writing its special haunting quality. Pam Constable has also woven a poignant self-portrait. This is the odyssey of a foreign correspondent who turns her searing gaze on herself as well as others."
"For five years Pam Constable was our window on the coups, wars, revolutions, and assassinations that tore apart South Asia. . . . This book is a bravura performance, forcing the reader to think beyond the headlines to a better understanding of how all of our lives are affected by events halfway around an ever-shrinking world."
"[Constable] is a damned good reporter, with a keen sense of sight and sound. And she's able to make insightful analogies based on what she sees. . . . A moving memoir."
"[Constable is] a reporter of immense skill and integrity. . . . Fragements of Grace is often compulsive reading."
"Her reportage humanizes the drama, small and big, of nations, fully formed and unevolved, in permanent argument with themselves. It has the narrative frisson of a novel and the panoramic sweep of history. . . ."
"With stories, anecdotes, reflections, and her own gorgeous photos, she humanizes the details of daily life, never hesitating to examine her own role as an active participant in the events and conditions at hand. Current affairs-minded readers will appreciate Constable's persistent effort to decipher the labyrinth of factors shaping religious, ethnic, and political tensions in these volatile regions."
Overview
In Afghanistan, she made numerous visits while the country suffered under the hostile rule of the Taliban, attempted to ...